Leadership Principles from God’s Word:
COMPASSION Mario Denton Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Overall purpose of this series on Leadership Principles To provide concepts and tools for effective leadership and management so that you can: • Be more anointed in your workplace. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Objectives • 1. Participants will understand the concept of compassion. • 2. Participants will explore the different examples of compassion. • 3. Participants will become aware of the important of people skills.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Passage to memorize Psalm 86: 9-12 Teach me your way O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will praise you o Lord my God with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Compassion Solomon 5: 1- 6: 13 • Leaders must relate to their people from the soul, not merely by protocol. • When dealing with yourself, use your head. • When dealing with others use your hearth. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
One mark of genuine spiritual greatness is compassion. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
This is what makes a godly leader great Clear and firm leadership, yet a compassionate heart as intercessor.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Jeremiah’s compassion Lamentations 2:20 He teaches us while people may reject your messages and oppose your arguments, they remain helpless against your prayers.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Put more value on people When all is said and done, leadership isn’t about strategy, marketing, organisation, efficiency, or high quality products, but about people.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
The Micah example: Micah 1:1-9 • People are the organisations most appreciable asset. • People skills are a leader's most important asset. • If you are good with people, you can lead in a variety of contexts.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
You can have people skills and not be good leader, but you cannot be a good leader without people skills.
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Jesus build a deep love for people. Love that moves them to do far more than obligation could ever induce. Mark 6: 34 Do you deeply love those you lead?
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world. • The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me. • I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Lead me on Holy Spirit
LEAD ME ON HOLY SPIRIT FILL MY HEART COME, FLOOD MY SOUL LEAD ME ON INTO YOUR PRESENCE TOUCH ME LORD JESUS, I NEED YOU I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU I CAN'T WALK THIS ROAD ALONE IN MY HEART I NEED YOU HOLY ONE COME TAKE MY HAND
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. • Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV) Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Learning, application and commitment • One of the Biblical truths (principles) that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this truth (principle) in my business/Ministry by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. I ask and expect my group to hold me accountable for this and to check with me periodically to determine if I am doing so. Please ask me ….. Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion
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Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Compassion